Charles Darwin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving Up, Science, Mind

  "Dow 36,000". Book by James K. Glassman, Kevin A. Hassett, www.cnn.com. September 14, 1999.

• As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Believe, Broken

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.304, OUP Oxford

• Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly to reappear, though it would be quite impossible to give definitions by which each group could be distinguished from other groups, as all would blend together by steps as fine as those between the finest existing varieties, nevertheless a natural classification, or at least a natural arrangement, would be possible.

  Charles Darwin

  Mean, Science, Giving

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.322, Zillmann Publishing

• Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

  Charles Darwin

  Love, Strong, Giving

• About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt (1993). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.75, Cambridge University Press

• After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.‎

  Charles Darwin

  Hope, Hard Work, Science

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.3038, Delphi Classics

• Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Long, Age

  Charles Darwin (1866). “On the origin of species ... A facsimile of the first edition, with an introduction by Ernst Mayr. With a portrait and a bibliography”, p.370

• If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make life richer and happier. In my youth I steeled myself against them and thought them so much waste.

  Charles Darwin

  Art, Giving, Literature

• I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Natural, Descent

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.490, Broadview Press

• It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of
  creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanation
  when we only restate a fact.

  Charles Darwin

  Ignorance, Thinking, Expression

  Charles Darwin (2016). “On the Origin of Species”, p.357, Zillmann Publishing

• It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.

  Charles Darwin

  Ideas, Giving, Feelings

  Philip Parker King, Sir Francis Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Charles Darwin (1839). “Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle: Between the Years 1826 and 1836 ...”, p.29

• The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Giving, Environmental

• Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.

  Charles Darwin

  Pride, Destiny, Men

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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